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Link streams model interactions over time in a wide range of fields. Under this model, the challenge is to mine efficiently both temporal and topological structures. Community detection and change point detection are one of the most…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Souaad Boudebza , Remy Cazabet , Omar Nouali , Faical Azouaou

Numerous networked systems feature a structure of nontrivial communities, which often correspond to their functional modules. Such communities have been detected in real-world biological, social and technological systems, as well as in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-07-08 Charo I. del Genio

Recent years have witnessed the development of a large body of algorithms for community detection in complex networks. Most of them are based upon the optimization of objective functions, among which modularity is the most common, though a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-10-02 Stanislav Sobolevsky , Riccardo Campari , Alexander Belyi , Carlo Ratti

Many complex networks display a mesoscopic structure with groups of nodes sharing many links with the other nodes in their group and comparatively few with nodes of different groups. This feature is known as community structure and encodes…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-07-31 Andrea Lancichinetti , Santo Fortunato

Most real-world social networks are inherently dynamic, composed of communities that are constantly changing in membership. To track these evolving communities, we need dynamic community detection techniques. This article evaluates the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-09-13 Hamidreza Alvari , Alireza Hajibagheri , Gita Sukthankar , Kiran Lakkaraju

Community structure is one of the most important features of complex networks. Modularity-based methods for community detection typically rely on heuristic algorithms to optimize a specific community quality function. Such methods are…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-09-02 Kun Gao , Xuezao Ren , Lei Zhou , Junfang Zhu

With invaluable theoretical and practical benefits, the problem of partitioning networks for community structures has attracted significant research attention in scientific and engineering disciplines. In literature, Newman's modularity…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Wenye Li

As two main focuses of the study of complex networks, the community structure and the dynamics on networks have both attracted much attention in various scientific fields. However, it is still an open question how the community structure is…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-05-11 Xue-Qi Cheng , Hua-Wei Shen

How can we uncover the natural communities in a real network that allows insight into its underlying structure and also potential functions? In this paper, we introduce a new community detection algorithm, called Attractor, which…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-09-30 Junming Shao , Zhichao Han , Qinli Yang

Community detection is an important tool for analyzing the social graph of mobile phone users. The problem of finding communities in static graphs has been widely studied. However, since mobile social networks evolve over time, static graph…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-12-04 Carlos Sarraute , Gervasio Calderon

We consider the problem of finding communities or modules in directed networks. The most common approach to this problem in the previous literature has been simply to ignore edge direction and apply methods developed for community discovery…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2008-03-22 E. A. Leicht , M. E. J. Newman

We review and improve a recently introduced method for the detection of communities in complex networks. This method combines spectral properties of some matrices encoding the network topology, with well known hierarchical clustering…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-11 L. Donetti , M. A. Munoz

Recent years have seen a surge of interest in the analysis of complex networks, facilitated by the availability of relational data and the increasingly powerful computational resources that can be employed for their analysis. Naturally, the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-08-08 Jean-Charles Delvenne , Michael T. Schaub , Sophia N. Yaliraki , Mauricio Barahona

Community and cluster detection is a popular field of social network analysis. Most algorithms focus on static graphs or series of snapshots. In this paper we present an algorithm, which detects communities in dynamic graphs. The method is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-01-26 Pascal Held , Rudolf Kruse

Networks observed in real world like social networks, collaboration networks etc., exhibit temporal dynamics, i.e. nodes and edges appear and/or disappear over time. In this paper, we propose a generative, latent space based, statistical…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Shubham Gupta , Gaurav Sharma , Ambedkar Dukkipati

Community detection is a fundamental problem in network analysis, with many applications in various fields. Extending community detection to the temporal setting with exact temporal accuracy, as required by real-world dynamic data,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Victor Brabant , Angela Bonifati , Rémy Cazabet

Dynamic community detection is crucial for elucidating the temporal evolution of social structures, information dissemination, and interactive behaviors within complex networks. Nonnegative matrix factorization provides an efficient…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Hao Fang , Qu Wang , Qicong Hu , Hao Wu

We present a new layout algorithm for complex networks that combines a multi-scale approach for community detection with a standard force-directed design. Since community detection is computationally cheap, we can exploit the multi-scale…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-03-13 Oliver Dürr , Arnd Brandenburg

Community detection is one of the pivotal tools for discovering the structure of complex networks. Majority of community detection methods rely on optimization of certain quality functions characterizing the proposed community structure.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-12-15 Stanislav Sobolevsky , Alexander Belyi , Carlo Ratti

Community detection methods can be used to explore the structure of complex systems. The well-known modular configurations in complex financial systems indicate the existence of community structures. Here we analyze the community properties…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2021-12-28 Longfeng Zhao , Chao Wang , Gang-Jin Wang , H. Eugene Stanley , Lin Chen